Preston Sturges's razor-sharp (as well as razor-thin) conception of an American small town confines itself to a few solid characters: a hot-tempered town constable with a pair of motherless daughters on his hands; the unmanageable older one, whining and wheedling, who is impregnated one night by a nameless soldier off to war (she remembers vaguely, in a hangover haze, that it sounded something like "Ratzkywatzky"); the little sister who feels free to adopt an aloof, sideline cynicism while she awaits her turn, behind her sister, for life's big moments; and a poor sap, 4-F, who is putty in the hands of the older one. When these people are gotten to project their personalities, in duets, in trios, in quartets, and occasionally with additional background voices, the result is a frightful cacophony and, moreover, Sturges's smartest, smarting-est movie. Betty Hutton, Eddie Bracken, William Demarest, Diana Lynn. (1943) — Duncan Shepherd
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